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RE: Some thoughts and facts on STEEM
Thanks for the post @acidyo. It has lots of nice info. I'll pin this (somehow) for sure to return to when I have questions or advanced enough as a steem user. One thing I'll like to mention though that while great progress has been done identifying quality content, your curation project being one of them, it's not yet full proof and we should keep working on it to get better. Can be discouraging when you spend time creating original work such as my post on the economy of self driving cars and not getting visibility for it. Like I usually say, always let us know how we can help.
Visibility and attention is harder to get than curation on Steem right now, you have to invest time in connecting with other authors who are likeminded and share your interests who'll read your content from their feeds, engage and then reward you. Most curation projects, even though they might reward you for your efforts, won't help much with engagement/visibility.
@acidyo your advise on finding other like minded individuals who share similar interests on steemit is spot on and I should have thought of it earlier. Will start working on it. Thanks!
That is so sad.
So much work, effort and time on that post, and only a few comments, and a pending payout of $0.01.
And you are not alone. Many people are in the same shoes. I suggest using Busy.org for posting.
At least you would get enough upvotes for the payout threshold ($0.02).
Thanks @xplosive for the sentiment and also reading the post. Really appreciate that. It's true I'm not the only one but if enough of us speak up rather than giving up, I'm sure we can make the platform better for everyone. As @acidyo says, steem has a lot of potential (I'm sure that's why most of us are here) but it won't realize that potential until we all, as stakeholders play our part in that realization.
I'll also checkout Busy.org and thanks for suggesting it.
Your more recent posts, however, have been doing a lot better.
Keep in mind that discoverability is not a unique problem to Steem. Every other social platform out there has the same issues: saturation.
You are competing with millions ( billions? ) of online users. Steem is no different, just a lower number, but still quite large!
Hang in there. It takes a while, a long while, to build an audience. But your writing seems solid & your chosen topics have large interest. You can do it :^)
Thanks @stuffbyspencer! May just be the motivational boost I needed! You are right that the most recent posts are doing better but the economics of self-driving cars post really got to me as that came from a deep place of thought. Expected it to have been the most well-received but I guess you are right, social media is about social norms (and psychology) that can be quite unpredictable. Finally, thanks for reading and voting for that post and others. Means a lot!
No problem buddy! You'll never know what catches the attention of the crowd. Some of my more "lazy" shitposts sometimes do better than the blogs I put time & effort into.
Just enjoy the ride & keep chugging along. Good luck! 👍